Edith M. Nisly

KALONA ? Edith Maxine Nisly, 97, of Kalona, died Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2017, in the Pleasantview Home in Kalona.

Graveside service will be at 9:30 a.m., Monday, Jan. 16, at the Upper Deer Creek Cemetery in rural Wellman, followed by a celebration of life service at 11 a.m., Monday at Sunnyside Mennonite Church in Kalona with the Rev. Floyd Helmuth and the Rev. John King officiating. Visitation will be from noon to 6 p.m., Sunday at the Yoder-Powell Funeral Home in Kalona. A memorial fund has been established for Sunnyside Missions and Iowa City Hospice. The Yoder-Powell Funeral Home is handling the arrangements.

Mrs. Nisly was born April 4, 1919, in rural Wellman, the daughter of Elmer and Mary (Bender) Swartzendruber. She married William H. Nisly on Nov. 24, 1940, at the Upper Deer Creek Mennonite Church in rural Wellman.

She attended Center High School and then worked at Maplecrest. She and her husband made their home in the Wellman community, where she was a homemaker. The couple operated a grocery store in Kalona from 1961 to 1971, and then she worked as a Certified Nurses Aide and Medication Tech at the Pleasantview Home from 1971 to 1990. She was a member of the Sunnyside Mennonite Church, where she taught Sunday school and Bible school. She also volunteered at the Pleasantview Home and the Crowded Closet. She enjoyed quilting, puzzles and reading.

Surviving are eight children, Rachel Kemp and husband Alvin of Wellman, Sheldon Nisly and wife Miriam of Kalona, Weldon Nisly and wife Margaret of Seattle, Washington, Wendell Nisly and wife Muriel of Kalona, Jenelle Bender and husband Dwight of Kalona, Marcus Nisly and wife Sandra of Goshen, Indiana, Hope Nisly and Douglas Kliewer of Redding, California, and Ross Nisly and wife Lynn of Hutchinson, Kansas; 22 grandchildren; 39 great-grandchildren; one great-great-grandchild; one sister, Ethel Miller and husband Henry of Kalona; one sister-in-law, Ila Swartzendruber of Kalona; and one brother?in-law, Vernon Ropp of Kalona.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, William; one daughter-in-law, Sherry Nisly; two brothers, Morris, and Ellis; and three sisters, Mildred Graber, Effie Miller, and Mary Elva Ropp.